McKinney Visiting Artist Series

McKinney Visiting Artist Series

The McKinney Visiting Artist Series brings prominent working artists from a range of studio practices and fields to the School of Art, Architecture and Design. Artists lead workshops and critiques for students within the department, as well as lectures and gallery talks open to the campus community.

The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Art, Architecture and Design gratefully acknowledge Dr. Meredith McKinney (B.A. ’65) and Elsa Luise Barthel McKinney (B.A. ’65) for their love of the arts and their generous support in endowing the McKinney Visiting Artist Series at Indiana University Bloomington.

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María Dávila & Eduardo Portillo, live and work in Mérida, Venezuelan Andes. Textile Artists, devoted together since 1983 to the silk world, fibers and natural dyes. They are interested in experiences, materials and process that bear the imprint of people and places.

Gowin’s first body of photographic work centers on his family and their home in Virginia. In the 1960s Gowin studied with Harry Callahan at the Rhode Island School of Design, and like Callahan, who photographed his wife Eleanor, Gowin found inspiration in his own wife, Edith.

Rodrigo Sastre lives in Mexico City. His work deals with comic books, science fiction and art history references. Since he was a child, he was caught by the world of American comics. He became interested in Art as a way to develop his drawing skills. Meanwhile collecting comics, he assumed Art as his profession and looked at the ways to maintain both interests.

Ghost of a Dream began their collaboration in 2007 after meeting at Rhode Island School of Design where they both received their Masters Degree (Was in Sculpture, 2004 and Eckstrom in Painting, 2005). Among their most recent exhibitions they have participated in is State of the Art”, a traveling museum exhibition.

Timothy Lazure is a Professor in the Metals Design program at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He received his BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His body of work is diverse in scope—including jewelry, flatware and hollowware, furniture, and sculptural pieces.